BALA CYNWYD, Pa. – So long steel cages, pyrotechnics and theme music. Kurt Angle wants to get real about wrestling again.
Angle believes the time is right to swap that big gold TNA Wrestling championship belt around his waist for another shiny gold medal around his neck.
Creeping up on 43, Angle is serious about becoming an Olympic wrestler for the second time.
The 1996 220-pound freestyle wrestling gold medal winner in the Atlanta Games has scaled back his professional commitments for TNA and dedicated the last seven months to training for a run at making the U.S. team for next summer’s London Olympics.
Like Angle once blurted out for a catchphrase: It’s true! It’s true! Yet, this improbable comeback seems straight out of a storyline in the fantasy world of pro wrestling.
Angle understands the skepticism that he can make the team, much less contend for a medal, against amateur wrestlers more than 15 years younger than him who have not been hardened by the grinding of a body wracked by 13 years of arduous travel, devastating injuries, and an addiction to painkillers.
His Angle Slam is useless in Iowa.
His suplexes are grounded in London.
Angle has to get back to the amateur basics, the style
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